Eggplant is a vegetable crop that is grown around the world and can provide significant
nutritive benefits thanks to its abundance of vitamins, phenolics and antioxidants. In addition …

Several medicinal plants have the potential to be a promising alternative pharmacological
therapy for a variety of human illnesses. Many insects, including mosquitoes, are important …

Vegetables supply various minerals, vitamins, dietary fibers along with important
phytochemicals that plays a major contribution in our balance diets and nutrition. Each …

A model food system was designed to explore the effects of food status and thermal
treatment ways on degradation of crude anthocyanins from eggplant peel, formation of …

Solanum insanum L.(Solanaceaeae) is the wild progenitor of common eggplant (S.
melongena L.) and is naturally distributed in south and southeast Asia, Madagascar and …

Crop domestication is often accompanied by changes in metabolite compositions that alter
traits such as flavor, color, or other beneficial properties. Fruits of eggplants (Solanum …

Eggplant is an essential widespread year-round fruit vegetable. This study was conducted
using 130 local germplasm of brinjal to select diverse parents based on the multiple traits …

Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is an important Solanaceous crop, widely cultivated and
consumed in Asia, the Mediterranean basin, and Southeast Europe. Its domestication …

In this chapter, I highlight how the eggplant, whilst being globally dwarfed by other members
of the Solanaceae, notably potato and tomato, offers a number of important ecological …

In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and
shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common …